On February 15th, 2017, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-2) re-introduced a bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to explicitly grant all citizens of legal age the right to vote. As of February 21st, the bill had 28 co-sponsors.

On Presidents Day, the New Mexico state senate became the first chamber to pass the National Popular Plan, by a margin of 26-16. It now moves onto the house. The legislation has been introduced in many other states as well.

It's the final week in the highly competitive race to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. As people gear up for the Saturday vote, keep in mind that with 10 candidates, it's highly unlikely that anybody will earn a majority of the initial vote. Instead, in what amounts to a series of runoffs, the winner will ultimately be the candidate who represents a majority of voters.

The House Committee on Administration voted this week to advance H.R. 634, the Election Assistance Commission Termination Act, to consideration by Congress. The bill proposes eliminating the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), which was set up in the wake of the 2000 election when ballot design and machine flaws in Florida delayed results and famously led to the Supreme Court stepping in to halt recounts in the state.

The EAC was designed to safeguard against these sorts of catastrophic failures in the infrastructure of our democracy, by gathering election administration best practices from across the nation, setting standards for election equipment, and serving as a gathering point for election administrators from all corners of the United States. This past election season the EAC served a central role in providing cybersecurity support to election administrators across the country, in the wake of the hacking of the DNC and voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona. If the EAC is eliminated, its responsibilities will be reassigned to the Federal Elections Commission and the Office of Management and Budget.

FairVote and the Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center submitted a letter to the Committee, urging its nine members to vote against the bill. Now that it has passed out of committee, the bill will travel to the House floor for debate and a vote.

When America goes to the polls to choose a new president every four years, the Presidential Debates are a key way that citizens learn about the candidates and decide who to support. Unfortunately, the Commission on Presidential Debates (the CPD) has long excluded

While Canada’s federal government abandons its electoral reform promises before the 2019 federal general elections, one city in the country’s most populated province is considering implementing a new voting system that would benefit all of its citizens.

It's award season, and La La Land just picked up a big prize: the Darryl F. Zanuck Award from the Producers Guild of America (PGA). Underscoring how ranked choice voting is a smart, reliable system for handling voter choice, the PGA and Academy of Motion Pictures have picked the same winner all but one year since adopting the system